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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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That's not writing, that's typing
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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